Japanese cruiser Kako was struck by three torpedoes from USS S-44 90 miles east of Kavieng, New Ireland at 0710 and sank at about 0715 hours; 34 were killed, 582 survived. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

Max Merten arrived in Thessaloniki for service with the German occupation administration in Thessaloniki, Greece. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

India

Police in Bombay, India opened fire on a mob rioting following the arrest, on the previous day, of Mohandas Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Dr. Maulana Azad, and all the members of the Indian Congress Party who attended the 5 August 1942 Bombay meeting. ww2dbase [AC]

Japan

At Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay, Japan, Admiral Yamamoto convened a meeting aboard Yamato with Vice Admiral Nagumo of First Air Fleet, Vice Admiral Kondo of Second Fleet, and other top Combined Fleet staff officers. Yamamoto discussed his desire to exploit Mikawa's success and the need to protect convoys carrying troops to recapture Guadalcanal. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

Troops of the German 6.Armee crossed the Don River in southern Russia, reaching the suburbs of Stalingrad. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

German troops reached the Krasnodar-Pyatigorsk-Maikop line in southern Russia. Over Novorossiysk, five He 111 bombers of German Luftwaffe group KG 55 were attacked by Soviet LaGG-3 fighters; Soviet pilots claimed 3 bombers destroyed, one of which by deliberate ramming. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

"With Germany arming at breakneck speed, England lost in a pacifist dream, France corrupt and torn by dissension, America remote and indifferent... do you not tremble for your children?"

Winston Churchill, 1935

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